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  1. Various approaches for catheter ablation of focal initiators of atrial fibrillation or the substrate for maintaining atrial fibrillation have evolved over the past 5 years. Despite these advances, there are st...

    Authors: J Marcus Wharton

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:67

    Content type: Commentary

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  3. The evidence base for drug treatment of hypertension is strong. Early trials using thiazide diuretics suggested a shortfall in prevention of coronary heart disease. The superiority of newer drugs has been wide...

    Authors: Gordon T McInnes

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:63

    Content type: Commentary

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  4. Arteriosclerotic vascular disease manifests as heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysms, and peripheral vascular disease, and is a growing problem world-wide. The preventive efforts made so far have demonstrate...

    Authors: W Virgil Brown

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:12

    Content type: Commentary

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  6. Only a few randomized clinical trials have been performed so far in heart transplant recipients, mainly because of the relatively small number of heart transplants performed worldwide each year. The main focus...

    Authors: Maria Rosa Costanzo

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:45

    Content type: Review

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  7. The Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES) randomized 822 patients to receive 25 mg spironolactone daily and 841 to receive placebo. The primary endpoint was death from all causes. Randomization began o...

    Authors: Janet Wittes, Jolie Palensky, Debra Asner, Desmond Julian, Jean-Pierre Boissel, Curt D Furberg, Henri Kulbertus, Stuart Pocock and Barbara Roniker

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:59

    Content type: Research

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  9. PREVENT was the first prospective, randomized placebo-controlled study of intracoronary beta radiotherapy with 32P. A total of 105 patients with de novo or restenotic lesions, treated by stenting or balloon angio...

    Authors: Albert E Raizner and Grzegorz L Kaluza

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:16

    Content type: Commentary

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  12. The importance of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) control in the management of patients at high risk of cardiovascular events is unquestionable. The major statin trials have shown that the benefits of LDL loweri...

    Authors: Sergio Fazio and MacRae F Linton

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:8

    Content type: Commentary

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  13. The fundamental methodological deficiency of megatrials is deliberate reduction of experimental control in order to maximize recruitment and compliance of subjects. Hence, typical megatrials recruit pathologic...

    Authors: Bruce G Charlton

    Citation: Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001 2:2

    Content type: Commentary

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  17. As the population ages the number of elderly patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) will continue to increase. There has been no head-to-head trial of thrombolytic therapy versus primary pe...

    Authors: Vincent S DeGeare and Cindy L Grines

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:146

    Content type: Commentary

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  19. Large scale clinical trials demonstrate significant reductions in cardiovascular event rates with statin therapy. The observed benefit of statin therapy, however, may be larger in these trials than that expect...

    Authors: Gavin J Blake and Paul M Ridker

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:161

    Content type: Review

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  21. 1. To assess the long-term effectiveness of a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation programme on quality of life and survival in patients with a large spectrum of cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction,...

    Authors: Cornel Pater, Carl Ditlef Jacobsen, Arnfinn Rollag, Leiv Sandvik, Jan Erikssen and Else Karin Kogstad

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:177

    Content type: Research

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  22. Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common condition with a poor prognosis. It is associated with poor exercise tolerance and debilitating symptoms. These symptoms appear to be associated with pathophysiological ...

    Authors: Andrew JS Coats

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:155

    Content type: Review

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  24. Gene therapy using in vivo recombinant adenovirus-mediated gene transfer is an effective technique that offers great potential to improve existing drug treatments for the complex cardiovascular diseases of heart ...

    Authors: Andrea D Eckhart and Walter J Koch

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:131

    Content type: Commentary

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  26. Lipid disorders are associated with atherosclerotic vascular disease, and therapy is associated with a substantial reduction in cardiovascular events. Current approaches to the treatment of lipid disorders are...

    Authors: Masa-aki Kawashiri and Daniel J Rader

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:120

    Content type: Review

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  28. Despite the major advances in medical drug therapy, heart failure remains a syndrome associated with high mortality and morbidity. Biventricular or left ventricular (LV) short atrioventricular (AV) delay pacin...

    Authors: Jayne A Morris-Thurgood and Michael P Frenneaux

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:107

    Content type: Review

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  34. Surrogate outcomes are frequently used in cardiovascular disease research. A concern is that changes in surrogate markers may not reflect changes in disease outcomes. Two recent clinical trials (Heart and Estr...

    Authors: Ralph B D'Agostino Jr

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:76

    Content type: Commentary

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  36. Surrogate end-points of cardiovascular disease can provide useful information in cross-sectional, prospective and interventional studies. They provide information on association with risk factors, natural hist...

    Authors: Jonathan Valabhji and Robert S Elkeles

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:72

    Content type: Commentary

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  38. Whether it matters how pressure is lowered has been debated since antihypertensive drugs proved to prevent cardiovascular events. However, in clinical trials, while the stroke benefit predicted by a given diff...

    Authors: Michael H Alderman

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:69

    Content type: Commentary

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  41. Direct myocardial cell protection in patients with unstable angina or evolving myocardial infarction (MI) could prevent cell necrosis or reduce its extent, and minimize the risk of MI and death associated with...

    Authors: Pierre Theroux, Bernard R Chaitman, Leif Erhardt, Andreas Jessel, Thomas Meinertz, Wolf-Ulrich Nickel, John S Schroeder, Gianni Tognoni, Harvey White and James T Willerson

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:59

    Content type: Research

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  42. The results of recent randomized trials to test the influence of antioxidants on coronary-event rates and prognosis in patients with coronary-artery disease were disappointing. In none of these studies did the...

    Authors: Ascan Warnholtz and Thomas Münzel

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:38

    Content type: Commentary

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  43. The present review assesses the data on long-term outcome after coronary stenting. Histological, angiographical and intravascular imaging data have shown that the insertion of stents constitutes only a transie...

    Authors: Adnan Kastrati, Donald Hall and Albert Schömig

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:48

    Content type: Review

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  45. Although the TIMI (Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction) flow grade classification scheme is widely used to assess angiographic outcomes, it is limited by poor reproducibility and its categoric nature. The co...

    Authors: Mark A Appleby, Andrew D Michaels, Michael Chen and C Gibson Michael

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:31

    Content type: Commentary

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  49. This symposium provided a useful forum for the discussion of issues relating to the design and conduct of clinical trials. There is a need for greater awareness of the complexity of modern day trials, in which...

    Authors: Rachel N Johnatty

    Citation: Trials 2000 1:55

    Content type: Meeting report

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